Abele Under Fire By Milwaukee County Board For Terminating Parks Director

Milwaukee - On Friday, the Milwaukee County Board demanded for County Executive Chris Abele to explain his reasoning for firing Sue Black, 51, the County Parks Director. Black was hired by former County Executive Scott Walker in 2003 and in 2009, the county parks system won an excellence award under Black.

Within the last year, she received two pay raises from Abele hiking her current salary up to $140,000 per year. He even recommended Black for another four years as parks director, but in a controversial move decided to replace Black.

During a press conference on Friday, Abele tried to explain that the county could do better without Black, but fell short in explaining what led him to decide to abruptly terminate Black. Abele is expected to name a temporary interim director on Monday.

Supervisor Peggy West confirmed during an interview with a local media outlet that Black was "shocked and devastated" due to her termination as county parks director.

The county board is expected to initiate it's own probe and audit into Black's termination. Board members are now seeking answers from Abele who is keeping quiet about his controversial decision to get rid of Black.

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"Words conveyed by wisdom and truth influence inevitable change, Las palabras que contienen sabiduria y verdad influyen inevitablemente al cambio", H. Nelson Goodson said.
Goodson is well known in the local organizing community network. Nationally, Goodson is one of the foremost respected immigration rights and reform journalist.
He is also one of America's foremost Latino civil libertarian.
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Goodson was instrumental in helping to coordinate the national Immigration movement early in 2006, which drew millions of supporters for immigration rights and reform. Goodson further encouraged numerous members of the Latino entertainment world to endorse and support immigration reform throughout the nation in 2006, published in "El Conquistador Newspaper" issue on November 21, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Currently, Goodson has more than 32 years experience in news investigative reporting. (2015)

Immigration March 2007

Goodson marched with immigrants calling for a just comprehensive immigration reform, which would create a path for legalization for more than 13 million undocumented immigrants and to keep families together.